By: Courier Journal, November 10, 2005
Can peace be taught? And then learned? When I asked myself those questions 22 years ago, I responded like a journalist. Phone the academic experts, get their readings, and I'd have my answers. But after phoning the experts and listening to them talk much and say little, I did some legwork. I went to the high school nearest my office in downtown Washington and offered my services as a volunteer teacher of peace.
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By: The Christian Science Monitor, November 10, 2005
CAIRO, EGYPT – Egypt, with its restrictions on free speech and organization, remains a long way from being a democracy. But the government made good on its promises Wednesday to open up its political system.
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By: Forum, November 9, 2005
In what its priest, Fr Ioann Grudnitsky, has described to Forum 18 News Service as "the crudest violation of religious freedom," state officials in Belarus are refusing to register a Russian Orthodox Church Abroad village parish that has come into conflict with the local Moscow Patriarchate diocese. Activities of the parish are - against international human rights standards - illegal under Belarusian law.
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By: Human Rights Watch, November 1, 2005
The Uzbek government should ensure immediate medical attention for jailed opposition leader Sanjar Umarov, including an independent psychiatric examination, Human Rights Watch said today. Today marks a week since Umarov's attorney found him naked and incoherent in his cell.
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By: BBC, November 9, 2005
Detained Ethiopian opposition leaders and editors will face treason charges for their part in last week's protests, the prime minister has said.
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By: ZWNews, November 10, 2005
Harare - Police yesterday arrested six student leaders at the restive University of Zimbabwe (UZ) while union leaders arrested on Tuesday for organising street protests remained in detention as President Robert Mugabe resorted to iron-fist tactics to crush swelling public discontent. Armed police swooped on the UZ campus in the afternoon, grabbed student leaders they found addressing students about hardships at the campus, beat up some of the leaders before taking them away for detention.
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By: Voice of America, November 8, 2005
The president and secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions are among several labor officials arrested before peaceful demonstrations were broken up by riot police in Harare and Bulawayo. The demonstrations were against the rising cost of living and cheap imported Chinese goods, which unionists say are causing job losses in the manufacturing sector.
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Close to 300 students at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo took to the streets in protest over meagre payouts and galloping inflation. Led by a Student Union President known only as 'General' Mataranyika, the students gathered at the Delta Theatre inside campus for what had been billed as a general meeting. Speaker after speaker blasted Robert Mugabe's government for making Zimbabweans suffer from political and economic problems.
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By: The Washington Post, November 9, 2005
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named eight countries yesterday as the world's worst violators of religious liberty and denied that there has been any wavering in the U.S. commitment to global human rights, despite disclosures of secret prisons run by the CIA in Eastern Europe.
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By: BBC, November 10, 2005
Chinese President Hu Jintao has been greeted by a chorus of boos from hundreds of protesters as he arrived for a banquet in London's Guildhall. Mr Hu was welcomed to the dinner by Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
By: LA Times, November 9, 2005
Patients were reportedly subjected to electrical shocks, among other things. The revelations point up hospitals' role as a tool of repression. They are known in Chinese as ankang, or "peace and health." But former inmates describe the country's police-run mental hospitals as decidedly less-than-serene places, with one recently freed political prisoner telling of sadistic nurses who performed electroshock therapy while other patients were forced to watch.
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By: Democratic Voice of Burma, November 9, 2005
Burmese military authorities have been confiscating homes, farmlands and paddy fields belonging to the villagers of Kyetpyay areas, Pyinmana Township in central Burma.
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By: BBC News, November 9, 2005
Thousands of opposition supporters in Azerbaijan have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections.
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